Blackbell Agency

This is a scam! Look up «credico» and Antoine Bell on the Rip Off Report. I sincerely feel bad for people that were tricked into joining the «team». This is a pyramid scheme business where employees work ridiculously long days for only commission with false promises for soon being promoted to a manager. This «company» changes names every year (or less) once it is called out and gets a bad reputation. What a waste of time! DO NOT GO TO THE INTERVIEW! This is door to door sales. I’m am so disgusted by this cult-​like company. Read the other review, I had the same experience except I was interested in what would happen and went for the next interview. I showed up and was told we would be meeting with a client and I would shadow the meeting, they asked me if I had a metro card and whisked me onto the subway, bombarding me with questions and nonsense that I can only imagine was filler to confuse me. Anytime I asked where we were going I was told she would get to that soon. 45 minutes later I’m in deeeeep Brooklyn and she says we are ready to meet with «our first client» (now there is more than one client?!) in which she and another poor sucker who was starting her first day and had already made it through the «difficult» hiring process, walked into a random bodega and asked who it was that made the store orders. In a very pushy ridiculously scripted way. I was so thrown off by all of this I just stood I shock.
We preceded to go to 10 plus other places in a sketchy area of Brooklyn were we were faced with disgusting make owners who made inappropriate comments, including a doctor that insisted that I sit on the patients table while he sat below me and made his order. I sat for 45 minutes getting more and more uncomfortable trying to make sure my legs were tightly crossed so he couldn’t see up my skirt. I had planned a few escape routes as I had no idea what to expect next, the young (straight out of college) girl I was shadowing left me for 15 minutes and I was completely freaked out and disgusted by this man.
Also! No cell phones!!! She made sure that I had turned my phone off and put it in the bottom of my bag, I slowly worked to find my phone and turn it on as I truly feared things could take a bad turn at any moment.
Finally we left and I told her that it wasn’t for me that I wouldn’t waste her or my time anymore. She told me I had agreed to stay the day and that I was expected to return to her manager at 5:30 (I met with them at 9:30am at the Times Square office were that had me sign a paper agreeing I would not get paid for the day). I told her I was not going to do that, that I felt tricked and very suspicious of the company. I pulled my phone out and she told me sternly to put it away. I told her I would not and would be leaving. At first she argued with me. Then she totally changed her tone of voice and said I could «take the rest of the day off» that I just needed to go back to the office at the end of the day to do the survey. I told her I would not be doing that but that they could email it to me, trying to diffuse the situation.
I truly want to reach out to anyone in the company to leave!!! This is a scam and if you do grow to become a «manager» it will only be so that you will be responsible for further scamming more people and help these people who have their names known to start fresh… Get out now! This company will likely not exist in a few months, there are hundreds of known «companies» all with different names, but with a little research you can connect them all. I’m not sure how this is not illegal. Maybe it is?!

Okay so this review may be the only thing you find on the entire internet about «The BlackBell Agency» besides their website. Beware.
Red Flag #1: I applied for a job there on
, not knowing anything about them really. It said the job had been posted 29 days ago, but I received a call back from them within the hour asking me to come in for an interview in 45 minutes. I live in New Jersey and that would be impossible, so they told me to come in the next day – Saturday. Weird already, but I said «okay» because I really need a job. I searched all over the internet and couldn’t find a thing about them other than their makeshift, WordPress FREE website. There were grammatical mistakes all over the site and it didn’t even say what they did or who they represented. SHOULDN’T THE FIRST JOB OF A MARKETING AGENCY BE TO PROMOTE THEMSELVES IN A DIGNIFIED AND PROFESSIONAL MANNER? Didn’t seem like they put much effort into that. I saw another similar «agency”/webpage called MIABell Agency, and when I called that number it was disconnected. I was getting very skeptical, but figured I’d go in for the interview at BlackBell anyway just to see what it’s about.
Red Flag #2: I arrived in what seemed to be a converted old apartment with a desk and a TV. Looked like it was put up in twenty minutes. The people there for the interview did not look very professional, even though the the instructions for the interview made it clear to dress business professional. One kid had on Nike’s and a sweatshirt.
Red Flag #3: I was invited into the room by Antoine Bell – a nice guy who I’m assuming is the owner? He told me he was the Hiring Manager, though. I recognized his name and image because his was the only name on their website. We talked, and he didn’t give me much information about what they did as an «agency.» He said they had major Forbes clients, but didn’t say who. And wouldn’t anyone who actually had a Forbes-​listed client advertise that on their webpage? My thoughts immediately turned to going door-​to-​door selling coupons. No way I was doing that. He also said they had offices in Chicago, Atlanta, and Australia, with plans to «open 40 more locations within the next five years.» I was able to confirm none of these in my searches online – just seemed like a lot of big dreaming (which isn’t a bad thing, but don’t flat out LIE).
So Antoine liked me and I was invited back on Monday to «spend the day with the team and see what they did on a daily basis.» Naturally, being a keen and logical person, I declined.
Bottom line: Scam if I ever saw one. No proof they even really exist. I mean I wish them the best of luck in whatever it is they do because Antoine seemed really nice, but not the job for me. Be cautious of this «company» or whatever it is.